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Originally Posted by Sucre
Well, no. Paris and Copenhagen are definitely not comparable. Copenhagen is relatively small and there is one city center. In Paris, there is no "closest" ring road (or do you mean the "boulevards" ? - in which case the entire town should be car-free, yet it is too large for this !)
I think that the only way in Paris is to create several zones in each district which would be car free (as the case for example for the area near the boulevard St-Michel)
The idea of parking charges is precisely to make the city a living car hell. In addition to the parking charges introduced by Chirac, Delanoe has implemented "bus-only-lanes", which makes traffic for cars even tougher !
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Sucre I think the ring, or as we call it the outerbelt, does in fact make sense. Look at maps of all of our larger cities and you will find a situation just like Paris. There may be one older center city section, but newer center city clusters have sprung up everywhere. We have built outerbelts with them in mind. St. Louis for example has at least two outerbelts. The original one is fairly close to the city center and the newer ones ring the city closer to the suburbs. There are good roads connecting all of them together.
It can be done, but I will admit it is easier here because we have more space to play with and are willing to tear down older structures to make way for progress.